The BBC really does seem to be in a death spiral.
The BBC has announced a new diversity directive which will require 95% of staff to complete ‘unconscious bias’ training and 80% to declare their social class.
The corporation is also aiming for 50% of LGBT people to be ‘out’ at work, based on the proportion of people identifying as gay or transgender who state in an annual staff survey that they have revealed their sexuality to their manager.
I thought this Tim Davie bloke was supposed to clean this act up, not indulge in the same kool aid.
Firstly, unconscious bias training is pure snake oil. Has he learned nothing from Coca Cola this week?
As for the rest of it the appropriate response to the question is “mind your own business.” If people do not wish to share their sexuality, that is up to them. It is outrageous for an employer to be poking about in such matters. Likewise, class. The idea of class is so muddled these days, it is meaningless anyway, but, again, nothing whatsoever to do with an employer.
This is an example of massive overreach by an employer into the personal and private. An area in which they have no business involving themselves.
The BBC says it wants a 50-50 split of male and female staff and is in the process of launching a ‘staff census… that will for the first time capture non-binary or non-conforming identities’.
I’m thankful that I am not employed, but if I was, I would treat this census in the same way that I treated the regular Network Rail questionnaires asking all sorts of daft questions. I refused to fill them in.
The mandatory requirement for nearly all employees to undertake unconscious bias training is likely to face criticism, as many experts consider the technique to be ineffective in preventing discrimination and even harmful.
Let’s not quibble here. It is snake oil peddled by race grifters. The whole thing is designed so that white people are in a lose/lose situation. It is inherently racist. That being the point, of course.
It appears that Tim Davie is not the man to make changes in this organisation. He is merely more of the same. The role of a broadcaster is to make television programmes, not poke about in the employees’ private lives.
I guess they don’t even read their own news…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55309923
Clearly not. Although, I guess that the evil Tories would say that, wouldn’t they? Ergo, unconscious bias training is all okay.
I thought that my former workplace was becoming screwed up. We had a colleague complain that we were rude to him and had to have a ludicrous disciplinary hearing over said incident. I stated in no uncertain terms that the correct response should have been to tell him to grow the fuck up. Then we had the introduction of team building exercises that I flatly refused to take part in. While all this tripe was going on we were constantly overworked and understaffed a problem that had been going on for years to the accompaniment of empty promises to sort the problem out. Spent my final couple of years looking for another job before deciding that I could afford to retire.
As for the BBC, I think that I would have to resign on the spot if faced with this barrage of crap, or do everything in my power to get myself fired, that might be more fun. I suspect the problem might be that most of their staff are going to be totally on board with this stuff and happy to go along with it.
The BBC no longer make most of their programmes. They get their cronies in private companies to make them. Who knows what chicanery goes on there.
I think a few beers, a few whiskies and Mozart on ear buds should render be umconxcious enough to tolerate such a lecture, and the roll of a pair of dice could decide which race and gender I shall declare myself as being.
Unbelievable! Longrider can’t even spell “unbelievable”!
Feel free to delete this reply once you’ve fixed it. 🙂
Typos slip through from time to time. It was fairly late last night. Anyway, fixed.
Bizarrely, the BBC sent me a questionnaire yesterday asking what I thought of them…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u61149175?xtor=ES-206-%5B42322_Survey+Email+2020+(iPlayer+template)%5D-20210225-%5Bbbcaccount_bbcsurvey2020_nogenre%5D
Chilli Jon Carne covered this in one of his videos. He told them what he thought of them.
The BBC sent me one of their questionnaires, coincidentally (?) a couple of days after I’d cancelled my TV licence. I also told them what I thought of them. Well, they did ask.
Followed that link and filled in the survey. Probably be ignored, but still.
Yep the BBC with its ‘Wank’ sorry ‘Woke’ agenda has had it. To many of us its just the Black Broadcasting Corporation now and we no longer watch it.
I think the nadir for me was their remake of War of the Worlds. It was truly dire.
Yes that was a disaster LR.
I think that it is interesting that the BBC are now pushing their survey uninvited at random people. I filled it in several weeks ago, having been made aware of it by Paul Homewood. As you can all imagine, my answers to their questions were far from complementary. I suspect that the responses have been almost universally negative and that they are desperately searching for respondents who will redress the balance.
You never know, some good may come out of this. For instance, Gary ‘Wankers Crisps’ Linecker may come to realise that he truly is a supercilious twat.
You really think that level of self-awareness is possible?